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Bill McKibben pulls out of global warming TV debate

Global warming campaigner Bill McKibben, regarded as a climate change guru by Al Gore, has pulled out of a TV debate on global warming with Ian Wishart, the author of the controversial new climate change bestseller, Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming.

McKibben, who once famously blamed Hurricane Katrina on human-caused climate change, only to be embarrassed when scientific studies rubbished the claim, is touring New Zealand this week giving lectures on the threat of catastrophic global warming and urging people to financially support his new climate change lobby group, 350.

New Zealand's TV3 Network had organized for a Friday morning debate between McKibben and Wishart, but the emails from TV3 below tell the story:

From: Alistair Wilkinson
Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 5:40 p.m.
To: ian@investigatemagazine (Etc, email edited to avoid spam)
Cc: Stacey Murdoch
Subject: Sunrise appearance

Hi Ian,

   

Thanks for agreeing to take part in a debate on Friday with Bill McKibben on climate change. We'll need you at TV3 at 645 for a 715 appearance. Mr McKibben will be in our Chch studio.

   

My colleague, Stacey Murdoch will be in contact to reconfirm tomorrow afternoon.

   

Best wishes

   

Alistair Wilkinson

ALISTAIR WILKINSON | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | SUNRISE | WEEKEND PRESENTER | 3 NEWS |

   

www.3news.co.nz/sunrise

   

From: Stacey Murdoch
To: ian@investigatemagazine (etc, edited to avoid robot spam)
Sent: Thursday, 30 April, 2009 9:47:47 AM
Subject: RE: Sunrise appearance

Hi there Ian,

I'm afraid we have to cancel this debate because Bill McKibben has pulled out.

   

Thank you anyway - we'll look forward to having you on the show at some stage in the future.

   

Best wishes,

Stacey

STACEY MURDOCH | PRODUCER | SUNRISE | TV3 | TVWORKS | www.3news.co.nz/sunrise

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The cancellation of the TV3 Network appearance is in sharp contrast to this week's TV1 network Breakfast show interview between Paul Henry and Ian Wishart on Air Con

AIR CON, which went on sale Monday this week in New Zealand has rapidly become a bestseller, with some bookstores onto their third order of stock in as many days. It is being released into Australian bookstores in a week, and is currently available online as well from

www.ianwishart.com (worldwide delivery)

Collins Books Australia

www.Seekbooks.com.au

www.Amazon.com

Air Con book now in stores this afternoon

The new book Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming by Ian Wishart is already flying out the doors of many stores, three days before its official launch.

Public demand has seen bookshops and the publisher relent and place the book onsale immediately.

You can listen to the radio ad that commences Monday, right here: Download Aircon3.

Suspicious coincidence

None dare call it conspiracy, but a replica of New Zealand's derided internet piracy law (s92a) has been attempted in France overnight.

Its appearance in NZ could be put down to stupidity. Its subsequent re-emergence as a serious international approach to internet piracy seems to me to be more of a back-door Trojan Horse to get a legal right established to cut off a citizen's internet access on the orders of the State.

Am I reading the significance of this wrongly?

In other words, this law is not about internet piracy at all, but about establishing infrastructure and legal precedent for control of access to information for as yet unspecified reasons.

Free preview of Ian Wishart's new book AIR CON

UPDATE: Book launched, many shops reporting sellouts on day one. See interview about book on TVNZ Breakfast programme, video here

 

UPDATE 2: Now released across Australia at Angus and Robertson and all other good bookstores. Also available from Seekbooks.com.au. SPECIAL OFFER for Australian readers: purchase a copy of Air Con from your local bookstore this week, email us a scanned copy of your receipt to ian (at) news24seven.tv, and we'll email you the digital e-book version (fully text searchable) of Air Con worth $29.90 absolutely free. Offer valid until 5pm this coming Monday 15 June AEST.

 

UPDATE 3: A #1 bestseller...and now also available to readers outside Australia or NZ via Amazon.com where it has gained five star reviews.Now also at Amazon UK

 

It's being released on April 27, 300 pages, more than 400 footnoted references to the latest scientific data on climate change...this will be the most controversial book of the year in this country.

 

 

As one scientist has already said after reading the book:

 

“I started reading this book with an intensely critical eye, expecting that a mere journalist could not possibly cope with the complexities of climate science … [But] He gives chapter and verse for almost everything he says and he has been far more far-ranging in searching the web than anyone else  I know. The book is brilliant. The best I have seen which deals with the news item side of it as well as the science. He has done a very thorough job and I have no hesitation in unreserved commendation. It has come along at the time we most need it and I hope it is published and publicized  widely.”

 

Read a preview below, pre-order here for guaranteed delivery: http://www.tgifedition.com

Open publication - Free publishing - More sea levels

 

Lord Monckton's full appraisal:

 

“Air Con demonstrates, with hundreds of scientific references, that "global warming" was not, is not, and will not be a global crisis; that, even if per impossibile it might be, it is far more cost-effective to adapt as and if needed than to attempt to mitigate ‘global warming’ by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide; and that all attempts at mitigation would serve only to imprison the very poorest in their poverty, thereby perversely increasing world population and consequently the ‘carbon footprint’ of humankind, achieving an outcome precisely the opposite of that which was (however piously) intended.

“The UN, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jacques Chirac, and other world-government wannabes are plotting to establish nothing less than a global, bureaucratic-centralist dictatorship under the pretext that it is necessary to ‘Save The Planet’. Ian Wishart's book demonstrates that there is not the slightest scientific reason for the new, quasi-religious belief that The Planet needs Saving. The new religion is merely an excuse for world government. World government will not, repeat not, be democratic government.

“The ‘global warming’ debate is not really a debate about climatology - it is a debate about freedom. It is the aim of the growing world-government faction among the international classe politique to take away our hard-won freedom and democracy forever. I commend this timely book, which makes the scientific arguments comprehensible to the layman. Those who read it will help to forestall the new Fascists and so to keep us free.” – Lord Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, former adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher